Difference between revisions of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

Revision as of 21:07, 10 December 2017

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.


⤏ Go to series page
The Hobbit	1982
The Fellowship of the Ring	1985
The Shadows of Mordor	1987
J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth	1988
The Crack of Doom	1989
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I	1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan	1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II	1992
The Fellowship of the Ring (2002)	2002
The Return of the King	2003
War of the Ring	2003
The Hobbit (2003)	2003
The Battle for Middle-earth (series)
The Lord of the Rings Online	2007
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest	2009
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North	2011
Lego Middle-earth (series)
Guardians of Middle-earth	2012
Middle-earth: Shadow (series)
Journeys in Middle-earth	2019
The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game	2019
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum	2023
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria	2023

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Only 2nd hand copies available.

System	Location

Folder LOTR Return of the King Data may be named differently, based on the system language.

System	Location

Video settings.

Widescreen fix^{[citation needed]}

Notes

Supported exe size: 2 874 232 bytes.

Use DxWnd^{[citation needed]}

Download and extract DxWnd.
Start DxWnd.
Click Edit and Add.
Type in the name of the game.
In Path type in a path to your ROTK.EXE file.
Check fields: Hook enabled, Run in a Window, Hook all DLLs and Remap Client Rect.
Go to a Video tab and check the field: Prevent Win Maximize.
Go to a DirectX tab and check: DirectX8.
Click OK and start the game without closing DxWnd.

Input settings.

Audio settings.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III - 700MHz AMD Athlon - 700MHz	Intel Pentium IV - 1.0GHz AMD Athlon XP - 1.0GHz
System memory (RAM)	128MB	256MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.0GB
Video card (GPU)	32MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	64MB of VRAM

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